The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-19

The native ate one on the way, and was amazed
to find that the note discovered his theft On
the next occasion that he was sent with four
loaves, he sat the note while eating one of
them"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Sunset Cox and Sec
rotary Whitney are classed among Unfortunate
ones who have been favored by the rise OF
Washington real estate. The President is worth
$50, 900 more than he was when he bought Oak
View. Mr.. Cox sold for $50, 600 cash, just be.
fore he went to Turkey property that he had
bought on time for $50 600: and It is salo tnaI
Mr.. Whitney cleared $4,000 at "Grasslanos.
A CABLE dispatch from Europe recently as
serted that the pistol which Aubertin used In
his attack on Ferry was mere toy, being
No. bore" DIR. Albert B. Lyman, of Baltl-
more, calls attention to the fact that by Eng1Sn
standard the bullet would be seven hundredtas
of an inch in diameter but by the French stand
ard about twenty five hundredths. A Frencn
No. IS, therefore, no toy, but very deadly
weapon.
THE Gordon memorial window presented to
Manchester Cathedral consists of five lights
and tracery. and is in memory of Gordon's last
days at Khartoum. Gordon is the central figure
of the composition, and is surrounded by his
fellow-sufferers, who look appealingly to him;
whilst his own gaze is turned to the desert and
the Nile seeking vainly sign of human aid
Above and around angels bearing palms
and crowns.
OF the thirty-eight widows of revolutionary
soldiers now on the pension list, Nancy A
Green. of Versailles. Ind, is the youngest
She was born in 1878. The revolutionary
ended in 1888. Assuming that her husband was
twenty,one When he was, mustered out he
would have been fifty-six when his bride was
born If he had married her when she was
eighteen he would have been venerable bride
groom of seventyfour.
ELDER WILLIS WARREN, a noted colored Bap-
fist preacher of Georgia. is remarkable man.
H.. 81 Ill baIJ
read or write, but he has gained complete
authority over thousands of his people in Lee,
Dougherty and Baker counties. Each OF his
followers is assessed 81 year, which is relig
iously paid, and Papa Willis's" income is very
large. He owns large plantation, which is
worked by members of his congregation IN
turn without any expense to him. He drives
into Albany, Ga, where he has recently built a
large church, seated in a handsome carriage be
hind housekeeping black horse. 1t IS said
that he uses his great power with his eongrega-
ton for good, and that his advice to them is ex-
cellent
TALKING of how long it takes for song to
become popular NJ. Lecocq, the well-known
composer, not long ago bet thousand francs
that he could compose air which all Paris
would be singing within week. He wrote one,
and the evening after it was sung by popular
artist at cafe chatant. Four days afterward
N. Lecocq and his friends We're walking on the
boulevards, when several ''mashers" met them,
all whistling the song. Through an open
window they heard it practiced on the piano;
some children singing old nursery
rhyme to it; and in yard not far off the same
air was played on barrel organ NJ Lecocq
had won his wager with honors,' but the air
became unbearably popular that he
obliged to leave Paris for Brussels to escape
from it.
SENATOR QUAY and Senator Davis of Mime
sofa, are often mistaken for the other.
The other day Mr.. Davis went to Mr. Quays
desk, and said: See here, Senator. of
will have to wear door plate around his neck.
Three men have come to me within the last
two hours and called me Quay, and talked
Pennsylvania politics with me. [ didn't want
your people to think you had become stiff and
unfriendly since you've got to be a Senator, and
so promised to take one of them up to pass
the evening in an informal way at the White
House, and chat with the President about a
claim he is interested in. He will call for you
this evening. hope gave him the right num-
ber-I518 K street. The next one had letter
of introduction, signed Cooper, and wanted
job In the Government Printing Office. l told
him. for you, that he should have 1T; that the
Public Printer had just sent me blank to fill
up with the names of the people L wanted APP
pointed, and his should stand first on the list
The third fellow rather got me over my head,
but think / came out all right. He asked me
what ] thought the new Wallace and Randall
deal would amount to in Pennsylvania and
told him that while didn't want him to say
anything as from me. except to some of our
was my private opinion that Wallace and Ran
dali We're not in Mr.. Blaines confidence at all.
Was that all right? 1t seemed to take him by
surprise
WITH grief is filled lifes cup.
Misfortunes frown,
When coal IS going up
And snow is coming down.